Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Paul Leyland <paul.leyland@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 20:22 +0100, Pierrick Gaudry wrote:
> Dear Paul,
> 
> > [...]
> > I note that ARM systems are now becoming very common, big
> > enough and with significant computational performance; they tend to be
> > *much* more power-efficient than x86 systems.  They also have
> > interesting architectural differences.   Perhaps this topic could be
> > considered for inclusion in the "coding sprints" element?
> > [...]
> 
> Now cado-nfs compiles and all the checks pass on a Raspberry pi.  It
> takes ages, though... We'll soon have a pi 2 that should be a bit faster,
> with the goal to set it up within our continous integration mechanism.
> 
> Porting to this architecture was indeed interesting, and several
> nice bugs were found.

Hi Pie,rrick,

Thanks for your work.  I'm glad you fixed some bugs (to be honest, I did
expect some to be discovered) and apologies for not responding earlier.
For some reason your mail arrived only today.

An old saying is that software isn't portable until it has been ported.
Cado-nfs now has a better claim to be portable.

Paul